Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 20:00, Wed, Aug 24

AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2005
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 20:00, Wed, Aug 24

CANBERRA - Mosques and Islamic schools will be targeted by intelligence agencies as the
federal government tries to stamp out homegrown terrorism and extremists. (Terror Nightlead)

ADELAIDE - A diver is presumed dead after a shark attack witnessed by two friends off
Adelaide's most popular beach. (Shark Nightlead, with factbox, graphic. 2nd Nightlead
to come.)
ADELAIDE - Whenever there's a fatal shark attack in Australia, the chief suspect is usually
the feared predator, the great white. (Shark White, Backgrounder.)

BANGKOK - Thai police have arrested an Australian man accused of taking a young girl away
from her poor tribal family and sexually abusing her for four years. (Thai Aust Nightlead.

2nd Nightlead to come.)
BANGKOK - The arrest of Australian Christopher Ronald White on paedophilia charges involving
a 13-year-old Thai girl highlights the problem of sex tourism in Thailand. (Thai Aust,
Backgrounder.)

PORT MORESBY - Australian police are set to return to Papua New Guinea under a compromise
anti-corruption deal that Foreign Minister Alexander Downer admits is "second best". (PNG
Police)

CANBERRA - An Australian man is missing feared dead after a plane crashed during a severe
storm in Peru's northeastern jungle, local media reports say. (Peru Plane Aust, 2nd Nightlead,
with graphic.)

SYDNEY - The mother of an Australian missionary missing after he plunged into a river
near a treacherous waterfall in Uganda is refusing to surrender hope he may be found alive.

(Uganda Coulter Nightlead, with graphic.)

MELBOURNE - Immigration officials are facing possible legal action after being accused
of contributing to the death of an elderly Syrian woman seeking to extend a visitor visa
due to ill health. (Detention Agha Nightlead)

MELBOURNE - Former Australian Test cricketer Darren Lehmann today told a trial that the
18 months since the death of Victorian coach David Hookes had been the most traumatic
of his life. (Micevic Nightlead, with pix.)

PERTH - The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has smashed the record for Australian
corporate profits, making $US6.51 billion ($A8.62 billion) in the last year. (BHP, Fronter,
with pix, graphic, factbox.)
MELBOURNE - Mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd has shattered Australian corporate records with
a $US6.51 billion ($A8.62 billion) annual profit on the back of the China-driven commodities
boom. (BHP Nightlead, with pix, factbox, graphic.)

NOTTINGHAM - England fast bowler Simon Jones is relishing proving his worth to Australia's
cricket fans - the same ones who called him a "weak Pommy bastard" over two years ago.

(Cricket Aust Jones)

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